Syllabus - Acharya Nagarjuna University

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ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

NEW Syllabus COURSE STRUCTURE 2014-2015

Paper No. I SEMESTER II SEMESTER
Paper - I Structure of Modern English - I Structure of Modern English - II
Paper - II Poetry – I Poetry – II
Paper - III Drama – I Drama – II (Shakespeare)
Paper - IV Prose and Fiction – I Prose and Fiction – II
Paper – V Electives: Electives:
a) Victorian Age Native Literatures
b) Twentieth Century Literature – I Twentieth Century Literature – II
c) Translation Studies – I Translation Studies – II
d) English for Specific Purposes - I English for Specific Purposes - II

III SEMESTER IV SEMESTER
Paper - I Literary Criticism – I Literary Criticism – II
Paper - II Communicative English – I Communicative English – II
Paper - III Indian Writing in English Indian Literature in Translation
Paper - IV American Literature – I American Literature – II
Paper – V Electives: Electives:
a) Colonial/Post-colonial Literatures - I Colonial/Post-colonial Literatures - II
b) Modern European Fiction – I Modern European Fiction – II
c) English Language Teaching – I English Language Teaching – II
d) Women’s writing – Gender and Women’s writing – Gender and
Theory – I Theory – II
e) Literature of Empowerment - I Literature of Empowerment - II
M.A. ENGLISH - SYLLABUS
M.A., (PREVIOUS) I – SEMESTER
PAPER-I
STRUCTURE OF MODERN ENGLISH – I

UNIT- I

Phonetic transcription of One out of Two passages (a prose passage and one dialogue).

UNIT-II - PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

1. T. Balsubramaniam : A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students Macmillan,
1981.

2. Daniel Jones: English Pronouncing Dictionary, 15 th edition. CUP.
The following topics:
(i) The Organs of Speech
(ii) Classification of Speech Sounds English – Vowels & Consonants
(iii) Consonant Clusters

UNIT – III - PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

The following topics:
(i) The Syllable
(ii) Word- Accent
(iii) Accent & Rhythm in Connected Speech
(iv) Intonation

UNIT – IV – INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

1. David Crystal: Linguistics, (Penguin)
2. David Crystal: Encyclopedia of Language, (CUP)

The following topics:
(i) Human Language and animal communication
(ii) Definition & Scope of Linguistics
(iii) Branches of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
(iv) Traditional Approaches to language study

UNIT – V – INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
The following topics:
(i) Modern linguistics
(ii) Language Varieties: Dialect, Idiolect, Register and Style.
(iii) Notions of Correctness & Acceptability.

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M.A. ENGLISH- SYLLABUS

M.A., (PREVIOUS) I – SEMESTER

PAPER – II - POETRY- I

UNIT – I

Middle English Period, Renaissance Humanism and Empiricism, Puritanism, Metaphysical
conceits, Neoclassicism, Romantic Revival, Influence of French Revolution and Platonic
Idealism,
Poetic forms: Epic, Mock-epic, Augustan Satire, Elegy, Lyric & Ode, Dramatic Monologue ,
Elegy

UNIT II

John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I

Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

UNIT III

John Keats : Five Odes

UNIT IV

John Donne : “The Sun Rising”, “The Ecstasy”.

“The Apparition”, “The Anniversary”.

Alexander Pope : “The Rape of the Lock”

UNIT V

William Wordsworth: Prelude Book 1,“Immortality Ode”, “Tintern Abbey”.

Robert Browning : “The Last Ride Together”, “My Last Duchess”,
“Abt Vogler, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”.

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M.A. ENGLISH – SYLLABUS
ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
(PREVIOUS) I SEMESTER
PAPER – III, DRAMA – I

UNIT – I

Comedy of Humours, The Revenge Play, Comedy of Manners, Political Satire,
Restoration drama, Sentimental drama, the Problem Play, Theatre of the Absurd, Drama of Ideas.

UNIT – II

Christopher Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

UNIT – III

Ben Jonson : Every Man in His Humour

William Congreve : The Way of the World

UNIT – IV

T. S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

UNIT - V

George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

Suggested Reading:

Clifford, J.I. and Landa, L.A. (ed) Eighteenth Century English Literature: Modern Essays
in Criticism.
Nicoll, Allardyce: A History of English Drama 3 Volumes.
Stephen, Leslie: English Literature and Society in the Enghteenth century.
Raymond, Williams: Drama from Ibsen to Brecht.
For a. Boris: The Modern Age.
Lucas F.L.: Seneca and the Elizabethan Tragedy.
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M.A. ENGLISH - SYLLABUS

M.A., (PREVIOUS) I – SEMESTER
PAPER - IV
PROSE AND FICTION - I

UNIT – I
Elizabethan World View, Political Satire, Neo-classicism, Rise of the English Novel, Parody,
Picaresque Novel, Socio-Economic conditions of women and their rights, Novel of Manners,
the Historical novel, Romanticism, the Essay
UNIT II

Frances Bacon : Select Essays
(Of Truth, Of Revenge, Of Adversity,
Of Parents and Children, Of Marriage and Single life,
Of Friendship, Of Youth and Age, Of Studies)

Charles Lamb : From Essays of Elia
Dream Children: A Reverie
A Dissertation upon a Roast Pig
The Praise of Chimney Sweepers
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century

UNIT III

Jonathan Swift : The Battle of the Books

UNIT – IV

Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens : David Copperfield

UNIT – V

Emile Bronte : Wuthering Heights

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M.A., (PREVIOUS) I – SEMESTER
PAPER-V (a), (OPTIONAL) VICTORIAN AGE
UNIT – I

Socio-economic and cultural conditions of the period, Victorian compromise, Elegy,
Dramatic Monologue, Novel of Social Realism, the Gothic novel, Victorian notions of Women
and morality

UNIT –II

Alfred Lord Tennyson : In Memoriam (1 to 25 sections)
Robert Browning : “Andrea del Sarto”, “A Grammarian’s
Funeral”

UNIT- III
Matthew Arnold : “The Scholar Gypsy”
John Ruskin : Unto This Last (Two Chapters)

UNIT -IV

Charlotte Bronte : A Tale of Two Cities

William Thackery : Vanity Fair

UNIT- V

George Eliot : Middlemarch

Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

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M.A. ENGLISH - SYLLABUS
M.A., (Previous) I – Semester

OPTIONAL PAPER – V (b) TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE - I

UNIT – I

Modernism, Symbolism, Imagism, Poetry of the Thirties, Movement Poetry, the Problem
Play, Naturalism, Psychological Novel, Stream of Consciousness Technique

UNIT – II

W.H. Auden: In Memory of W.B. Yeats, “The Shield of Achilles, Lime stone”.

UNIT – III

George Orwell: Animal Farm
Bertrand Russell: Conquest of Happiness

UNIT – IV

T.S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party
G.B. Shaw: Saint Joan

UNIT – V

E.M. Forster: A Passage to India
Virginia Wolf: Mrs. Dalloway.

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I SEMESTER
OPTIONAL PAPER – V (c ): TRANSLATION STUDIES – I

UNIT – I
Translation – An Introduction
a) Intra-lingual Translation
b) Inter-lingual Translation
c) Inter-semiotic Translation
UNIT – II
History of Translation
a) Loss and gain in Translation
b) Bible Translation, Epics in Translation

UNIT – III
Theories of Translation
a) Eugene. A. Nida
b) J. C. Catford
c) Peter New Mark
d) Lawrence Venuti … etc.
UNIT – IV
Types of Translation
a) Word-for-word Translation
b) Literal Translation
c) Communicative Translation
d) Semantic Translation … etc.
UNIT – V
Problems in Translation
a) Linguistic Problems
b) Cultural Problems
c) Semantic Problems
Text: Ravi Sastry. Alpajivi (Little Man)
from Chakrapani, Kakani (2008): Four Classics of Telugu Fiction.

Prescribed Texts:
1. Lakshmi H (1993): Problems of Translation, Hyderabad; Orient Longman.
2. J.V. Sastry: The Art of Translation, Hyderabad; Orient Longman.
3. Sujit Mukherjee: Translation as Discovery, New Delhi; Macmillan Publications
4. Nair, R.B. (2002): Translation, Text and Theory, The Paradigm of India, Sage
Publications; New Delhi.
5. Chakrapani, Kakani (2008): Four Classics of Telugu Fiction – Kuppam: Dravidian University Press.
Suggested Books:
1. Baker Mona (ed) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Routledge,
2. J.C. Catford: A Linguistic Theory of Translation, London: OUP.
3. Bassnett – Mc Guirie (1991): Translation Studies, Routledge.
4. House Juliana (1997): A Model for Translation Quality Assessment, Tubigen.
5. New Mark, P (1988), A Text Book of Translation, London: Prentice Hall.
6. Simon, S (ed.) Changing the Terms: Translating in the Post Colonial Era.Hyderabad: Orient Blackman.

M.A. ENGLISH – SYLLABUS
I SEMESTER
OPTIONAL PAPER – V (d ): ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES - I
M.A. ENGLISH - SYLLABUS
M.A., (PREVIOUS) II – SEMESTER
PAPER -I
STRUCTURE OF MODERN ENGLISH - II

UNIT – I
Grammar – Correction of Sentences (8 out of 12) from the chapters prescribed.

UNIT-II: GRAMMAR
1. Randolph Quirk and
Sidney Greenbaum: A University Grammar of the English Language, Longman, 1973

The following Chapters:
1. Varieties of English
2. Elements of Grammar
3. Verbs and the Verb Phrase

UNIT – III : GRAMMAR
The following Chapters:
4. Nouns, pronouns and the basic noun phrase
5. Adjectives and Adverbs
6. Prepositions and prepositional phrases
7. The Simple Sentence

UNIT-IV: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

1. Jack Richards & Theodore Rodgers: Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, OUP
2001.

2. Geetha Nagaraj: English Language Teaching: Approaches, Methods, Techniques, Orient
Longman, 1996.

3. H.H. Stern: Fundamentals of Language Teaching, (OUP).

The following topics:
(i) Fundamentals of Language Teaching: objectives, materials, methods, evaluation.
(ii) First language and second language.
(iii) Grammar Translation Method & Bilingual Method
(iv) Direct Method.

UNIT – V INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
(v) Structural Approach
(vi) Audio-lingual Method
(vii) Situational Language Teaching
(viii) Communicative Approach
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